Health minister Taimur Jhagra meets representatives from the Hayatabad Medical Complex. - Photo courtesy Twitter
PESHAWAR: Resenting the non-implementation of the last year’s legislation for the prevention of violence against health workers, the Provincial Doctors Association has warned that the medics will suspend the management of coronavirus patients in hospitals if the government doesn’t act against MPAs Nighat Orakzai and Shafiq Afridi for ransacking the Hayatabad Medical Complex and torturing staff members.
The PDA leaders told
Dawn that health professionals would stop offering coronavirus-related services to patients in hospitals as a last resort if perpetrators of the Friday violence at the HMC weren’t booked and dealt with strictly.
Health minister Taimur Jhagra meets representatives from the Hayatabad Medical Complex. - Photo courtesy Twitter
PESHAWAR: Resenting the non-implementation of the last year’s legislation for the prevention of violence against health workers, the Provincial Doctors Association has warned that the medics will suspend the management of coronavirus patients in hospitals if the government doesn’t act against MPAs Nighat Orakzai and Shafiq Afridi for ransacking the Hayatabad Medical Complex and torturing staff members.
The PDA leaders told
Dawn that health professionals would stop offering coronavirus-related services to patients in hospitals as a last resort if perpetrators of the Friday violence at the HMC weren’t booked and dealt with strictly.
PESHAWAR/MARDAN: Coronavirus claimed 42 more lives and 787 new cases were detected in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday as the weeklong lockdown ended in Mardan after slump in infectivity level of virus in the district where positivity for virus declined after imposition of restrictions.
Amid three wave of the pandemic, which has so far killed 3,392 persons and infected 1,20,064 others since its onset, Provincial Doctors Association chairman Dr Zubair Zahir in a statement said that elective services had been stopped in Hayatabad Medical Complex, Bara and Hazara division where only critically-ill and injured patients would get treatment in accident and emergency departments.
“The strike will be extended to the whole province if government does not lodge FIRs against Pakistan Peoples Party MPA Nighat Orakzai and Balochistan Awami Party’s Shafiq Sher Afridi for violence against health staffers at HMC and PTI MNA Iqbal Afridi, who held hostage medical superintend in tehsil headquarters
Pak doctors threaten to suspend service
ANI
04 May 2021, 02:56 GMT+10
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 3 (ANI): Doctors community in Pakistan have threatened to suspend services until the government arrest Pakistan s Peoples Party s (PPP) legislator Nighat Orakzai, who led a mob to attack a COVID-19 hospital in Peshawar.
The doctors accused the woman lawmaker and others of harassing healthcare providers and using foul language against them, The News International reported.
The doctors urged the government to lodge FIR against lawmaker Nighat Orakzai and other culprits under the security act.
The incident took place on Friday night when a boy was taken to the casualty department of Hayatabad Medical Complex with a serious bullet injury on his head from the Jamrud subdivision in Khyber tribal district. The boy was reportedly caught in crossfire between two rival groups in Jamrud.